Furuno FR-8065 Marine RADAR User Manual


 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD................................................................................................................... ix
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION .......................................................................................... xi
1. OPERATION ..........................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Controls ......................................................................................................................1-1
1.2 How to Turn the Radar On/Off and Transmit..............................................................1-2
1.3 Display Indications......................................................................................................1-3
1.4 How to Adjust Display Brilliance, Panel Dimmer ........................................................1-4
1.5 Menu Description........................................................................................................1-4
1.6 Tuning.........................................................................................................................1-6
1.7 Display Modes............................................................................................................1-7
1.7.1 How to select the display mode......................................................................1-7
1.7.2 Description of display modes .........................................................................1-8
1.8 How to Select a Range Scale...................................................................................1-10
1.9 How to Adjust the Gain (sensitivity)..........................................................................1-10
1.10 How to Reduce the Sea Clutter................................................................................1-11
1.11 How to Reduce the Rain Clutter...............................................................................1-12
1.12 Automatic Adjustments of Sea and Rain Clutters.....................................................1-13
1.13 Cursor.......................................................................................................................1-14
1.14 Interference Rejector................................................................................................1-15
1.15 How to Measure the Range to a Target ...................................................................1-16
1.15.1 How to adjust range ring brilliance ...............................................................1-16
1.15.2 How to measure the range with a VRM........................................................1-17
1.15.3 How to select VRM unit ................................................................................1-17
1.16 How to Measure the Bearing to a Target..................................................................1-18
1.16.1 How to measure the bearing with an EBL ....................................................1-18
1.16.2 EBL reference ..............................................................................................1-19
1.17 How to Measure the Range and Bearing Between Two Targets .............................1-19
1.18 How to Select a Pulselength.....................................................................................1-20
1.19 Target Alarm.............................................................................................................1-21
1.19.1 How to set a target alarm zone ....................................................................1-21
1.19.2 How to stop the audio alarm.........................................................................1-22
1.19.3 How to select the alarm type ........................................................................1-22
1.19.4 How to sleep a target alarm temporarily.......................................................1-23
1.19.5 How to deactivate a target alarm..................................................................1-23
1.19.6 How to select the target strength which triggers a target alarm ...................1-23
1.19.7 How to turn the buzzer on/off .......................................................................1-23
1.20 How to Off-center the Display...................................................................................1-24
1.20.1 How to select the off-center mode................................................................1-24
1.20.2 Off-center the display ...................................................................................1-24
1.21 Zoom ........................................................................................................................1-26
1.21.1 Zoom mode ..................................................................................................1-26
1.21.2 How to zoom ................................................................................................1-26
1.22 Echo Stretch.............................................................................................................1-28
1.23 Echo Average...........................................................................................................1-28
1.24 Target Trails .............................................................................................................1-29
1.24.1 Trail time.......................................................................................................1-29
1.24.2 How to start, stop the trails...........................................................................1-30
1.24.3 Trail mode ....................................................................................................1-30
1.24.4 Trail gradation ..............................................................................................1-31
1.24.5 Trail color......................................................................................................1-31
1.24.6 Trail level ......................................................................................................1-32